Coperni, a French luxury brand, has unveiled the Air Swipe Bag, made entirely of NASA's nanomaterial silica aerogel, Fast Company reports. Scientist Steve Jones first created the substance for ...

If paying for something that is 99 per cent air doesn't sound like a good deal, then this bag might not be for you. French designer Coperni has made a bag out of NASA's silica aerogel nano-material.

Aerogel — that mixture of air and silica — is one of those materials that seems like a miracle. It is almost not there since the material is 99% air. [NileRed] wanted to make his own and he ...

this photo taken with a microscope shows the impact paths and bodies of small particles of comet debris from U.S. space agency NASA’s Stardust mission in 2004. The aerogel helps decelerate the ...

In its latest work with aerogel, Outlast Technologies announced that it has incorporated the insulating material directly ...

One key technology being developed by Aspen Aerogels is aerogel, a lightweight material that excels in thermal insulation. Though not new, the technology continues to expand. Aerogel is made up of ...

Scientists create and discover new materials all the time. But few are so jaw-droppingly cool that they deserve to be recognized. From mindbendingly lightweight solids used by NASA to metals that ...

The result is a styrofoam-feeling material that is more than 95% air. By taking a page from NASA's incorporation of aerogels into highly insulating blankets and spacesuits to protect astronauts ...